- Actor Allusion: A roommate seeing his friend in the kitchen with a knife and an ear print being discovered at the first crime scene.
- Starring a Star as a Star: Carol Burnett plays the eponymous legendary ballerina Birdie Sulloway.
- Burnett really was a dancer who performed in Cabaret shows, on Broadway, and night clubs. Most of of these are actually actually listed in the episode. The scene where footage of Birdie dancing is played on the bedroom wall was taken from actual footage of Burnett dancing.
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